ESNE Radio is a Spanish-languageCatholic radio network based in the United States, owned by El Sembrador Ministries. Headquartered inChatsworth, California, a Los Angeles neighborhood, ESNE broadcasts on 14 stations in the United States, Mexico and Spain. ESNE also broadcasts a Spanish-language television channel, ESNE TV, launched in 2002.^[1]

On March 1, 2003, El Sembrador, led by founder Noel Díaz, began programmingKHPY (1670 AM) inMoreno Valley, California, under a time brokerage agreement; it purchased that station in 2008.^[2] Díaz had previously started a weekly Catholic radio program,Dimensión de Fe (Dimension of Faith), in 1990.^[1]

In 2013, the network acquiredKRXA, servingMonterey, California;^[3] the next year, it began brokering time onKURS in San Diego, later buying that station in 2016.^[4] A second southern California signal was acquired in 2015 when it picked upKTYM afterImmaculate Heart Radio instead bought another Los Angeles outlet.^[5] In 2017, El Sembrador bought theconstruction permit for a new station inEnterprise, Nevada (near Las Vegas), KENT, for $125,000.^[6]

El Sembrador expanded into Utah by buyingOgden's1430 AM—then KLO—for $260,000 in 2020.^[7] A third station in the Central Coast region of California was added later that year when the ministry purchasedKKMC (880 AM) inGonzales, California, from Monterey County Broadcasters.^[8] Additionally, in September 2020, El Sembrador filed to buyKDCO (1340 AM) inDenver—though not its associated FM translator—for $420,000.^[9]

In January 2021, El Sembrador reached a $725,000 deal to buyKYND inCypress, Texas (near Houston), from Pro Broadcasting.^[10] On February 1, it began programmingKWST inEl Centro, California, under a time brokerage agreement; this was followed with a $325,000 purchase fromEntravision Communications Corporation the following year.^[11] El Sembrador acquired1110 AM in Chicago from theMoody Bible Institute, which had owned that station as WMBI since 1926, for $1.2 million in March 2021; this purchase added the oldest non-commercial Christian radio station in the United States to the network, and replaced a previous part-timetime-buy onWNDZ.^[12][13]

KAFY inBakersfield was acquired for $450,000 from AOTS Holdings in March 2023; its associated translator was not included in the deal,^[14] but was separately donated to El Sembrador that June.^[15] In late 2024, the network acquiredKRQZ inLompoc from Spirit Communications, operator of theRadio U network, for $195,000.^[16]

• XEBBB-AM 1040,Guadalajara, Jalisco
• XENK-AM 620Mexico City

• 88.2 FM,Almonaster La Real
• 104.9 FM,Gibraleón

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